GUIDANCE

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GUIDANCE

• Direct and indirect actions used by caregivers
  to help children develop appropriate behavior
  patterns.

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Effective Guidance and Discipline should

• Maintain childs self-esteem
• Produce desired change in behavior
• Teach self-control
• Produce pro-social behaviors
• Cooperation and helpfulness
• Verbal and physical comfort to others
• Accepting others feelings
• Sharing

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Direct Guidance--Nonverbal

• Eye contact
• Facial gestures
• Body gestures

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Direct Guidance--Verbal

• Guidelines for effective verbal guidance
• Use simple language
• Speak in a relaxed voice (Save LOUD for
  emergencies. When you raise your voice, children
  generally become louder.
• Be positive (Use statements that give children a
  positive direction to take, not just a negative
  dont.)

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Direct GuidanceVerbal cont.

• Offer choices with careonly offer when the child
  actually has a choice
• Encourage independence and cooperation
• Expect children to dress themselves, pick up
  after themselves, solve conflicts on their own
• Encourage children to cooperate and help others

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Direct GuidanceVerbal cont.

• Be firm
• Be consistent
• Discipline and approval should be given
  consistently from one behavior to another and
  from one child to the other
• Provide transitions to help children cope with a
  change in schedule
• Consider the childs feelings

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Direct GuidanceVerbal cont.

• Intervene when necessary
• Interrupt when you can add to a childs knowledge
  or to promote health and safety
• Prevent impoliteness
• Help settle property arguments
• Help children take turns

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Indirect Guidance

• Using the environment to guide and direct
  childrens behavior
• Room set-up
• Visibility of the children
• Position of caregiver in the room
• Child-friendly hooks, furniture, stepstools, etc.

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Can you tell the difference?

• Look at the next slides and decide if each is
  indirect or direct guidance.

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Direct or Indirect Guidance?

• Removing a hot saucepan from the cooking area

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Direct or Indirect Guidance?

• Offering a child a choice of a cracker or a piece
  of toast

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Direct or Indirect Guidance?

• Telling the child to go into the kitchen for
  snack.

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Direct or Indirect Guidance?

• Lowering the easel so the child can easily reach
  the paper.

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Direct or Indirect Guidance?

• Moving a childs coat hook to a lower position in
  his or her locker.

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Direct or Indirect Guidance?

• Saying to a child, You need to pick up that
  piece of paper you dropped.

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Direct or Indirect Guidance?

• Telling Tommy, Youll loose your place in line
  if you keep pushing the other children.

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Direct or Indirect Guidance?

• Putting in simple puzzles in the small motor area
  of the preschool.

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Direct or Indirect Guidance?

• Providing a place mat with an outline of a glass,
  plate, spoon and fork.

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Direct or Indirect Guidance?

• Suggesting to Wendy, that she put her arm around
  Kris, who is crying.

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Direct or Indirect Guidance?

• Telling a child that his drawing is great!

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Direct or Indirect Guidance?

• Keeping your desk against a wall so you can see
  all the children in the classroom.

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Direct or Indirect Guidance?

• Reminding children to cover their mouths when
  they cough.

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Direct or Indirect Guidance?

• Placing a picture of the toy wagon on the shelf
  where it is stored.

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Direct or Indirect Guidance?

• Buying two more tricycles for the play yard,
  since the trikes are popular toys during outdoor
  play.

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Indirect Guidance

• Removing a hot saucepan from the cooking area
• Lowering the easel so the child can easily reach
  the paper.
• Moving a childs coat hook to a lower position in
  his or her locker.
• Putting in simple puzzles in the small motor area
  of the preschool.
• Providing a place mat with an outline of a glass,
  plate, spoon and fork.
• Keeping your desk against a wall so you can see
  all the children in the classroom.
• Placing a picture of the toy wagon on the shelf
  where it is stored
• Buying two more tricycles for the play yard,
  since the trikes are popular toys during outdoor
  play.

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Direct Guidance

• Offering a child a choice of a cracker or a piece
  of toast
• Telling the child to go into the kitchen for
  snack.
• Saying to a child, You need to pick up that
  piece of paper you dropped.
• Telling Tommy, Youll loose your place in line
  if you keep pushing the other children.
• Suggesting to Wendy, that she put her arm around
  Kris, who is crying.
• Telling a child that his drawing is great!
• Reminding children to cover their mouths when
  they cough.

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• Can you think of a personal example of indirect
  guidance or direct guidance?